Show WHY of superstitions B H KINO WART CURES of folk NO cine as in this country appears to be PO popular as that blikh deals alth the cure of warts one of the publications of the annerl can folk lore society ches nearly four pages to a list of magical cure now in vogue for these annoying ex ci csc inces mythology and sympathetic angl and old forms of primitive religion are the baes of the cure here are two which are based upon tree worship draw a knife across the wart and then draw it the knife across an apple tree cut your finger nails and the cuttings in a hole in a tree then stop up alie hole and wish the warts onto somebody dee in both cases the tree spirit Is ap to for a cure in the art process the transference of the eil spirit residing in the wart to lie keeping of alie tree god Is accaro accoro by means of the knife and in the second cure by means of the cut tings of the finger nails the knife 9 an iron instrument and as ha been shown iron Is something pos power over witches and eai spirits and the inger nails were re by the ancients even ahei from the body as lie eo of the man to transfer trans fei fingernail cuttles waa tantamount t transferring alie whole anti to thi keeping of the tree god ahe wishing the wart onto afar alie ceremony of the nail cut tings ts tn the nature of a bruyer ti alie trie god to depose of the evl by it over to an oilier ipri n thus the wor of it and fop ll 11 an other home RO that it mav be kept celii and not depete to return to its forme in the dais when a bu rope ans with a dense foresi tree wort hip was the most and cult arid it Is no surprising thil we find among our cur run superstition of bodny so man vc icille ille of it 0 by it the person why doln good turns BOS mr who gets fl reputation ty kf i c unar |